Senior Data Engineer — On-Site Huntsville | TS Clearance

AnaVation LLC; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Disability insurance

Vision insurance

401k plan with match

Paid leave and holidays

Tuition reimbursement

Life Insurance

Job summary

AnaVation LLC in Huntsville, Alabama is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design, develop, and operate large-scale data pipelines for a federal modernization program. You will drive petabyte-scale migration, transformation, and storage of structured and unstructured datasets in cloud environments while ensuring secure, compliant data flows.

The role requires active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility and CI polygraph.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of data engineering experience.
• Experience building pipelines for structured/unstructured data across enterprise environments.
• Must be able to work full-time on-site at our customer location in Huntsville, Alabama and hold TS clearance.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and optimize scalable ETL/ELT pipelines for ingestion, transformation, and migration of large datasets.
• Develop data models, schemas, mappings, and integration structures supporting legacy-to-cloud migration.
• Improve pipeline automation, performance, throughput, reliability, and fault tolerance.
• Lead data cleansing, normalization, enrichment, validation, and root-cause analysis for data quality issues.
• Partner with QA, Cloud, DevSecOps, Migration, and development teams to integrate and validate data workflows.
• Support AWS-based data engineering and ensure compliance with security, logging, auditing, and data-handling requirements.
• Mentor data engineers and participate in technical reviews, sprint activities, architecture discussions, and migration planning.
• Maintain pipeline diagrams, mapping specifications, data dictionaries, and other technical documentation.
• Track migration progress, pipeline performance, data quality, risks, and blockers, and support timely resolution.

Skills

ETL/ELT pipelines

Data modeling

Data integrity

Cloud AWS

Scripting languages

DevSecOps tooling

Analytical skills

Documentation

Mentorship

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a related field

Tools

AWS

CI/CD tooling

Data orchestration tools

Job description

AnaVation LLC in Huntsville, Alabama is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design, develop, and operate large-scale data pipelines for a federal modernization program. You will drive petabyte-scale migration, transformation, and storage of structured and unstructured datasets in cloud environments while ensuring secure, compliant data flows.

The role requires active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility and CI polygraph.